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Volume 43-1: Journal of Near-Death Studies

Volume 43-1 | Spring 2025 | JNDAE7 43(1) 1–73 (2025) | ISSN 0891-4494

Volume 43-1: journal of near-death studies

Editor’s Foreword

Editor’s Foreword (Janice Miner Holden, EdD):
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p1-3

Articles

“I Was Home:” Near-Death Experiences and the Reincarnation Hypothesis (John C. Gibbs, PhD)
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p4-30

Past-Life Memories as After-Effects of Near-Death Experiences: A Pilot Study (James G. Matlock, PhD)
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p31-61

Letters to the Editor

Reaffirming Definitional Clarity in Terminal and Paradoxical Lucidity: Reply to Michael Nahm (Alexander Batthyány, PhD)
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p62-68

Follow-Up to “Response to ‘Fabrication and Falsification in AI-Generated Manuscripts’” (Norman Klaunig, MA, MBA, PhD Candidate)
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p69-70

Obituary

Charles T. Tart (1937–2025) (Stephan A. Schwartz)
https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2025-43-1-p71-73

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